(PERSONAL CAT) We name, label and categorize experience through the process of perception. These perceptions are conditioned & therefore can be distorted. Learning to let perception do it's function & not to identify with it.

This talk continues the exploration of how the practice cultivates happiness and joy. Topics include mindfulness as appreciation, wonder, gratitude, bliss of blamelessness, letting go, mudita, friendship and liberation.

(PERSONAL CAT) Paying attention to the pleasant, unpleasant or neutral aspect of experience brings us right into experience before we react through likes & dislikes. This helps us to break the cycle of becoming.